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At this time John ap Thomas and Edward Jones secured rights to 5,000 acres of Penn's American land, and upon their return to Merionetli, after themselves subscribing for over 1,500 acres, they conveyed the balance among fifteen neighbors in Penllyn tp., as stated, the majority of whom removed to their purchases.
It was undoubtedly the intention of John Thomas also to remove with his family to his American land, as he was greatly interested in the plan for a refuge for the perse- cuted Welsh Quakers, and was a shareholder in the Society of Free Traders of Pensylvania, but a little time before the date, in July, 1682, set for the first departure of Welsh Friends, his partner and relative, Dr. Jones, and compan- ions, he became too ill to travel, and never recovered. His old friend, Hugh Roberts, records the scenes of his death- bed, saying: "He took his leave of his friends, giving his hand to every one of us, and so in a sweet and heavenly praise, he departed the 3d day of 3mo. 1683." And of this event, his son, Thomas Jones, entered in the Family Bible, still preserved: "Our dear father, John ap Thomas, of Laithgwm, in the Commott of Penllyn, in the county of Merioneth, in North Wales, departed this life the 3d day
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of 3d month, 1683, being the 5th day of the week, and was buryed at Friends burying place at Havod-vadog in the said Commott and County, ye 5th of ye said month."
Although his health and strength was poor and failing, John Thomas looked forward to joining his friends in America, and to this end, "sent some effects [with them] and agree } with them to make some provision against his intended coming." This was certainly done, as John's portion of land was located on the Schuylkill, and in Goshen tp., the same as if he were present. In fact, there was an agreement, which is extant, signed by Edward Jones, per David Davies, while John Thomas was so ill, and before Dr. Jones sailed, saying: "And should John ap Thomas happen to die before ye said Edward Jones, that E. J. should take no benefit of survivorship," which probably re- ferred to partnership in goods for sale in Pensylvania, which Dr. Jones took with him.
About four months after her husband's decease, "Kath- erine Robert," his relict, with her children, sailed from Chester, in the ship "Morning Star," for Philadelphia, with the parties of Hugh Roberts and John Bevan, and arrived 16 Nov., 1683, "and found one-half of the purchase taken up in the place since called Merion, and some small im- provement made on the same where we then settled," as her son, Robert Jones, wrote to William Penn.
In a sketch of John Thomas and his wife, by the late Dr. James J. Levick, of Philadelphia, (in the IV Vol., of the magazine of the Historical Society of Pensylvania), he says: "From all that is left on record, Katharine Thomas was a woman of great force of character and of much Christian worth. * *
* Great as was the sacrifice, she does not seem to have hesitated to leave her comfortable home for the distant and wild lands beyond the sea."
The certificate she brought from the Friends' Penllyn Monthly Meeting, of which she had been a member for ten years, dated 18. 5mo. 1683, was most flattering, and among
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others, bore the signatures of Robert Owen, Richard Price, Cadwalader Lewis and Edward Griffith.
Among the "Thomas Papers" there are letters from Rob- ert Vaughan, "a learned man," to his "loving aunt," Kath- arine Thomas,-one written in 3mo. 1687, and a letter from her "loving nephew," Edward Maurice, dated "Eyton Parke, Denbigshire, 3 Sep. 1692," mentioning her kin, the Yales, of Plas yn Yale, and other "County Families" of Wales, all suggesting that Katharine was of gentle birth and refined breeding, which is borne out by Friends' en- dorsements, and the accounts of these families in Nicholas's "Annals and Antiquities of the County Families of Wales."
Many of the Welsh Friends, bound for Merion, came over on this voyage of the "Morning Star," as told before. Kath- arine's immediate party, her children and servants, num- bered twenty. It was a long voyage, even at that time, and only the strongest survived it. Two of Katharine's chil- dren died and were buried at sea, namely, daughters Syd- ney, on 29. 7mo. and Mary, on 18. 8mo. as recorded in the Bible* of Thomas Jones, one of Katharine's sons.
As "some provision against" Katharine's coming had been made on her husband's land, her son records they went there at once, after landing, the place being called, he says, "Geilli yr Cochiaid," or "Grove of Red Partridges."
The "provision" was only a log cabin, and here the family resided till a small stone house was erected on another prop- erty she bought. Both of these remained till recently as landmarks near the village of Bala, on the property of Walter Jones. Her property here, as surveyed in 1684, was 612 acres of timber land, and was the furtherest lo- cated up the Schuylkill of the purchases through her hus- band and Dr. Jones, and extended back to north of the present village of Narberth. Adjoining her was her old
*This Bible, with its family data, has been presented to the His- torical Society of Pensylvania by Lewis Jones Levick, Esqr.
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friend, Hugh Roberts, who, with his family, had also, as said, come over in this voyage of the "Morning Star."
We can imagine Katharine Thomas to have been of good business acumen, as after getting her 612 acres here into working order, and made crop-yielding, she purchased the following summer 150 acres on the river, between the lands of Barnabas Wilcox and Joseph Harrison, adjoining her husband's land, on which there was "a dwelling house lately erected." On 10 Dec. 1689, took title for a tract of 500 acres north of her first land, on the river, called "Glanrason," from Joseph Wood, (son of William Wood, the first grantee, 30. 7mo. 1684), and adjoining the 500 acre tract, next above on the river of William Sharlow, called "Mount Ara- rat." * Besides these lands on the river, Katharine also had a tract in Goshen tp., on Chester Creek, being the balance of her husband's purchase for £25, and lots in the "city" and a questionable share of the "liberty land" which went with the original purchase.
About six years after their mother's death, the sons had all of her land that remained to them, surveyed, and it amounted to 679 acres in Merion, and 635 acres in Goshen, for the whole they received a patent dated 3. 11mo. 1703, The Merion land, in a general way, lay north of the town of Narberth, extending from Montgomery Ave. (the old Lan- caster Road) to the river, and, from the Price property, west of and near the Merion Meeting House, westward to "St. Mary's" (the Wister, or Chichester property). East of the Ardmore toll-gate, on Montgomery Ave. A part of this Merion tract is still (1910) owned by descendants.
After coming over, Katharine, as executrix to her hus- band, had his will, a long one, dated 9 Feb., 1682, filed in Philadelphia, 10. 3mo. 1688. It was signed in the presence of Robert Vaughan, Rowland Owen and Thomas Vaughan.
*Sharlow's land was wrongly placed on Holme's Map. It was beyond Wood's property.
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He desired his tract of 1,250 acres (mentioning the trans- action between Penn, Dr. Jones and himself), to be divided equally between his four sons, and left £20 cash to each of his children, providing, of course, for his wife. He named as his overseers, John ap John, of Rhiwabon, or Ruabon, parish, Denbig; Thomas Ellis, of Cyfanedd, Merioneth; Thomas Wayne, "late of Bronvadog," Flintshire; Robert David, of Gwernevel, Merioneth; Hugh Roberts, of Kiltal- garth, Merioneth; Edward Jones, "late of Bala, Chirur- gion"; Robert Vaughan, of Gwernevel; Edward Morris, of Lavodgyfaner, Denbig; Robert Owen, of Fron Gôch, and "my son-in-law, Rees Evans, of Fronween," Merioneth.
Katharine Thomas lived fourteen years in "New Merion" among her Welsh friends, and was a regular attendant of the Merion Meeting, her death being thus entered in her son's, Thomas Jones's, Bible: "Our dear Mother Katherin Thomas departed this Life ye 18th day of ye 11 month, 1697, about ye 2d or 3d hour in ye morning (as we thought), & she was buryed next day." Her will, not recorded, dated 7. 11mo. 1697, is mentioned in a deed, executed by her sons -- Book G; V., pa. 496.
Her son Evan died unmarried a month after she died, in Feb. 1697, leaving a small money gift to the Merion Pre- parative Meeting.
Of her remaining children, who took "Jones" as their surname :
Thomas Jones, eldest son, was "through school" when he came over with his mother, and there is evidence that his education was a good one. He wrote a remarkably strong, clear hand, and kept a log of the voyage to America on the blank leaves of the Family Bible, and records of his kin. In 1709, he acted as clerk of the Haverford Monthly Meeting of ministers and elders, and was also their treas- urer. He became an "approved minister" among the Friends, and was popular in his neighborhood as a guar- dian, and overseer.
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He joined Dr. Jones, his father's co-trustee in the Pen- sylvania land, in conveying by deed, dated 27. 10. 1693, the 100 acres of liberty land due on account of their entire pur- chase, to William ap Edward.
He died 6. 8mo. 1727, at his home in Merion. His will, signed 31. 6. 1727, witnessed by Thomas Moore, Richard George and Robert Jones, trustees-"Cousins Robert Jones and Jonathan Jones," was proved on 5 Aug. 1728. He be- queathed lands in Merion adjoining Jonathan Jones, Sr., and in Goshen tp.
He married Anne, named in his will, daughter of Grif- fith ap John, or Jones, of Merion (a son of John ap Evan, of Penllyn, "old Merion," and a cousin of Robert Owen, of "New Merion"), who owned a 187 acre place northeast of Bala, Philadelphia County, an. whose sons, John and Evan, and their descendants took the name "Griffith."
Thomas and Anne Jones had besides John and Catherine, both buried at Merion Meeting in 1706, Evan, Elizabeth, Ann, Mary, Sarah, who m. at Merion Meeting 8. 11mo. 1742, Jonathan Jones, (son of Jonathan Jones, and grand- son of Dr. Edward Jones), and Katharine, who m. Lewis, son of David and Katharine Jones, aforesaid, of Blockley, Philadelphia County.
Robert Jones, named in his brother's will, second son of John ap Thomas, inherited the plantation called "Glanra- son," 189 acres, and purchased from David Hugh, 20. 4. 1699, 150 acres (surveyed), 165 acres of Sharlow's "Mt. Ararat," confirmation deed, 12 Feb. 1704, and at one time owned 1,000 acres in Merion, and 426 acres in Goshen. "He was a useful member of both civil and religious society," having been a justice of the peace, and a member of the provincial assembly. He was buried at the Merion Meeting House.
He married 3. 11mo. 1693, at his mother's house, Ellen Jones, sister to David Jones, of Blockley tp., who with his wife, Katharine, had certificate from the Monthly Meeting
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at Hendrimawr, Wales, dated 24. 12mo. 1699, signed by Robert Vaughan, Ellis Lewis and Thomas Cadwalader.
Robert's will was dated 21. 7mo. 1746. Of the children of Robert Jones: Gerrad, eldest son, b. 28. 12, 1705-6; in- herited "Glanrason," [he m. first, Sarah, daughter of Robert Lloyd and his wife, Lowry, daughter of Rees John William, of Merion, and m. secondly, Ann, (daughter of Benjamin Humphrey, of Merion?) and had eight children, of these Ellen, m. Robert Roberts and Isaac Lewis, and Paul, m. Phoebe Roberts]; Elizabeth, b. 1695, first child, Katherine, b. 1700, m. Thomas Evans; Ann, b. 1702, m. James Paul, of Abington tp., and Robert, b. 3. 6mo. 1709, who received land from his father.
Cadwalader Jones was a shipping merchant in Phila- delphia. The Land Commissioners on 23 Feb. 1702, granted him and his brother Thomas, executors to their mother's will, power to take up 100 acres of land (being part of 200 acres sold by the Commissioners to Hugh Roberts "for their mother's use"), which they had laid out in Merion tp., in 11mo. 1712-13, adjoining the lands of Mordecai Moore, John Havid (Havard), James Atkinson, and Owen Roberts.
Cadwalader, and his brothers, Thomas Jones, procured grant and survey of a 34 foot lot in 2d street, and a 20 foot lot in 3d street, in place of one "whole lot" of 51 feet, in 2d street, "of which they have been disappointed."
Katherine Jones m. Robert Roberts, son of Hugh Rob- erts, of Merion, the eminent minister among Friends, and next neighbor to Katharine Thomas.
Elizabeth Jones, m. before 1662, Rees Evan, of Fon- ween, in Penmaen, Penllyn, Merioneth. Their son, Evan Rees, came to Pensylvania and his daughter Sydney m. Rob- ert Roberts, of "Pencoyd," Merion.
John Thomas had reserved to himself 1,250 acres, of which 1,225 were in the City Liberties, and 6121/2 acres in Merion, and the same number in Goshen. On re-survey, it was discovered that his Merion tract contained 679 acres,
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while that in Goshen came out right. On 19. 2mo. 1703, the Land Commissioners confirmed the land to the brothers, Thomas, Robert, and Cadwalader Jones, the joint heirs un- der their father's will. . It may be noticed all thro. h these notices of Welsh families, that primogeniture was not the custom amongst them. Equal division of the land was made between the sons, and possession given without livery of seizine, that is, immediately. Since it was the practice to divide the land amongst the heirs, especially the improved parts, which they had helped to till, small farms prevailed, and they also became more numerous because they were easier worked.
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GAINOR ROBERTS, a spinster, was about 30 years old, a daughter of Robert ap Hugh, or Pugh, of Llyndeddwydd, near Bala, in Merioneth, (by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of William Owen, of Llanvawr), and a sister of the Friends' minister, Hugh Roberts, when she bought on her own ac- count 1561/2 acres of the Thomas & Jones tract, and came over to Pensylvania with her celebrated brother, with whom she lived in Kiltalgarth, on the ship "Morning Star," in 1683. Part of her purchase, 761/2 acres, was laid out in Merion, back of Calwalader Morgan's land, and the remain- der in Goshen tp., and these lands she took to her husband as a marriage portion.
She m. at Merion Meeting, 20. 1mo. 1683-4, whether in the traditional log Meeting House, the predecessor of the present stone one, or at her brother's home, is not known, John Roberts, who came over also on this trip of the "Morn- ing Star." She d. 20. 12mo. 1722, aged 69 years, and was buried with her husband at the Merion Meeting House.
They were the founders of the Roberts family of "Pen- coyd," Merion, and theirs was the first marriage in the Welsh tract of record.
John Roberts, of "Pencoyd," though not one of the orig- inal purchasers in Thomas & Jones tract, should be noticed here, with the other first settlers of this land, as he was the earliest of Welsh purchasers of the adjoining land, on the river, and became a noted man in the settlement.
In the days of this John there were three, or more, men in the Welsh tract named "John Roberts," and, to distinguish them from the subject of this sketch, their occupation or place of residence, was given with their names in early deeds, as later there was "John Roberts, Skuilkill," buried
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at Merion Meeting 7. 28. 1747, and "John Roberts, mill- wright," buried here 11. 10. 1803.
John Roberts, of "Pencoyd," as he named his seat, and as it is still called, born about 1648, was the son of Richard Robert (ap Thomas Morris), of Cowyn, Llaneingan parish, in Carnarvonshire, and his wife, Margaret, daughter of Richard Evan, of the same parish. He was about 29 years of age when he became a Quaker, in 1677. John Roberts's account of himself, filed with the Merion Meeting:
"John Roberts, formerly of Llyn, being son of Richard Roberts and grandson of Robert Thomas Morris, who lived at Cowyn, in the Parish of Llaneigan and County of Car- narvon; my mother being Margaret Evans, daughter of Richard Evans, of Llangian and county aforesaid.
"Being convinced of God's everlasting worth about the year one thousand six hundred and seventy seven, not by man nor through man, but by the Revelation of Jesus Christ, in my owne heart, Being about thirty miles from any Friends' Meeting in that time when I was convinced but coming into acquaintance with Friends near Dalgelle and near Bala in Merionethshire, I frequented their Meetings while I abode in those parts, but by the Province of God in the year One thousand six hundred and eighty three, I transported Myself with many of my Friends for Pensyl- vania where I and they arrived the sixteenth day of the Ninth month One thousand six hundred and Eighty three being then Thirty five years old, and settled myself in the place where afterwards I called Pwencoid, in the Township of Merion, which was afterwards called by them being the first settlers of it, having brought with me one servant man from my Native Land, and fixed my settling here. I took to Wife Gainor Roberts, Daughter of Robert Pugh from Llwyndedwydd near Bala in Merionethshire, her Mother being Elizabeth William Owen one of the first that was con- vinced of the Truth in that Neighborhood. So leaving this account for our ofspring and others that desire to know
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from whence we came and who we descend from and when we came to settle unto this place where we now abide being then a Wilderness, but now by God's Blessing upon our en- deavours is become a fruitful field. To God's name be the Praise, Honour and Glory who is worthy of it for ever and for ever more."
As apparently Mr. Roberts had a good home, and had not "suffered" much, it must be supposed that he only came over to Pensylvania because his lady-love, Gainor Roberts, did. Theirs was probably a long drawn-out courtship, as he was 35, as he states, and she 30, when they came over together, with her brother.
He was living near Dolgelly, and near where Gainor lived, when he set out for America, taking with him only one indentured servant, and his certificate of membership from the Men's Meeting, in Penllyn, dated 18. 5mo. 1683, which described him as of Llun, in Carnarvonshire. On the same date this Meeting issued Certificates to many oth- ers bound for Pensylvania, among them Cadwalader Mor- gan, and Hugh John Thomas, of Gwernfell, Robert David, of Tuyn y nant, Katharine Roberts, of Llaethgwn, widow, and Gaynor Roberts, of Kiltalgarth. All were signed by nearly the same men. Both John and Gainor were members in good standing of the Penllyn Monthly Meeting, as may be seen. It is presumed that John's brother Richard and sister Ann, who came in the Hugh Roberts party, both had issue.
John Roberts probably stayed close to Hugh Roberts and helped put up his house in Merion, in the winter of 1683-4, for in the early spring of 1683-4, he married Gainor Rob- ert. Theirs was the first wedding in the Merion Meeting.
"John Roberts the maltster," as he was known from his occupation, had bought from Richard Davies (Company No. 7), 150 acres by deed dated 30 July, 1682, and this right he had surveyed and laid out to him in "the city liberty" on the Schuylkill, and next east of the land of Evan Rees, in the Thomas & Jones tract. This land he named "Pencoyd,"
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which it has ever since been so called. With the land he had by Gainor, both in Merion and in Goshen, as the mar- riage portion, this gave him, "on paper," 3061/2 acres, but on resurvey, (by report of 12. 2mo. 1703), it turned out that he had 108 acres in Merion, and 262 acres in Goshen, which was 25 acres too much in Merion, and 81/2 acres too much in Goshen, this over-plus he bought. And on resurvey of another parcel of 150 acres in Merion, this was found 20 acres short, and a resurvey of 60 acres (which had been part of Swan Lum's grant of 400 acres, in 1677, he bought in 1699 of Andrew Wheeler, a Swede, in the "liberties," and Merion tp., "on the westerly side of the Schilckul by the falls," showed 47 acres over, and thus, between the over- plus and shortage, he had to pay for a balance of 601/2 acres.
John Roberts bought, by a joint deed dated 8. 6mo. 1702, the land due as head-rights for a lot of servants and others, who had come over about 1683-4, amounting altogether to 750 acres, laid out at his first purchase, among the Swedes, which his son Robert inherited. By deed of 7. 7mo. 1687, he bought from Cadwalader Morgan and Hugh John, 156 acres, in Goshen tp., on Chester Creek. At one time, with his wife's lands, John Roberts owned about 1,250 acres.
1704, 11mo. 5th., according to desire of the Merion Pre- parative Meeting, extended to all its members, he filed "an account of his place of abode in his native country, his con- vincement, his removal to this country, his marriage, and other remarkable passages of his life." A copy of this state- ment is extant in the family of a descendant, and an ex- tract is given above.
He was from the first a prominent man among the Pen- sylvania Welsh, and was a justice of the peace in the Welsh Tract, and a representative for it in the Assembly, and owned a very large landed estate. He died at his residence in Merion, which now forms a portion of the "Roberts man- sion," on the City Line, on 6. 4mo. 1724, aged 76 years, and
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was buried with his wife, Gainor, in the ground of the Mer- ion Meeting. The record of their burials at the Merion Meeting being "Gainor Roberts, wife of John Roberts, malt- ster, 12. 23. 1721," and "John Roberts, maltster, 1724, 4mo."
His will, signed 3. 7mo. 1722, witnessed by Edward George, Gainor Jones, and Thomas Jones, was proved at Philadelphia, 31 Aug. 1724. He named "brother Richard and his daughter Margaret," his niece Margaret, daughter of his own sister Ann: grandsons John, Alban, Rees and Phin- eas. Overseers appointed-Robert Jones, Robert Evans, and Thomas Jones: Owen Roberts mentioned. He be- queathed five pounds to the trustees of the Merion Meet- ing, for relief of the poor of Merion Meeting.
John Roberts, of "Pencoyd," had only two children, by his only wife, Gainor Roberts, who were named in his will, namely :
Elizabeth Roberts, b. 21. Imo. 1692, d. unm., 9. 7mo. 1746 She received by her father's will £200, and half of his per- sonal estate.
Robert Roberts, of "Pencoyd," first child, and only son and heir, b. 15. 12mo. 1685. He inherited from his father, the homestead and all his lands, and half of his personalty. He was a member of the Merion Peculiar Meeting, and the Haverford Monthly Meeting, and he and his wife were buried at the Merion Meeting House. He d. 17 March, 1768, leaving a will signed when "antient and Infirm of Body," 4. 7mo. 1764, in the presence of Richard George, Jr., David Lloyd and John Roberts, Jr., proved at Philadelphia 26 March, 1768.
He m. at the Merion Meeting, on 17. 4mo. 1709, Sidney Rees, daughter of Rees Evan, of Penmaen, in Merioneth- shire (whose mother was a daughter of John ap Thomas, of Llaethgwm, who d. in 1683), and had by her, who d. 29 June, 1764, aged 74 years, the following children named in his will :-
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John Roberts, eldest son and heir, b. 26. 4mo. 1710, in- herited the homestead farm, about 180 acres, on the City Line, where he d. 31 Jan. 1776. It adjoined land of Robert Evans, on the north, John Griffith on the west, and south, "tp. line road to the Ford road," and land of Rudolph Latch and John Garrett. His will, signed in Oct., 1775, in the presence of John Robert, miller, Rees Price, and Hugh Cul- ly, was proved 7 Feb. 1776. He named all of his children then living. To son Algernon, 50 acres in Blockley, bought of Joseph Abraham, south of the City Line, and north of lands of David George, and the homestead, then 100 acres, laying above and west of the "new road," and adjoining the lands of Thomas Norris, John Leacock, Jacob Bealer, and William Stadleman. To son Jonathan, 27 acres on the river, in Blockley, and money to sons Benjamin, John, Robert, and daughters Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Palmer, and Tacy, wife of John Palmer. Trustees, "loving brothers Owen Jones, Jacob Jones, and kinsman James Lewis Jones, Jr.
He m. at Merion Meeting, on 4. 3mo. 1733, Rebecca, daughter of Jonathan Jones (son of Dr. Edward Jones), of Merion, and had twelve children by her, who d. 8 Dec., 1779. His son Algernon also was the father of twelve chil- dren.
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